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BAMAKO, Mali – A spokesman for a Tuareg separatist group says fighting has broken out between its supporters and government-allied militias in Mali’s north, despite a peace accord. Almouzamil Ag Mohamed, spokesman for the Coordination of Azawad Movements, said that they were dislodged from their positions in Edjerer in the …

UNITED NATIONS – The U.N. political chief is calling the Syrian government’s airstrikes on the Damascus suburb of Douma that killed some 100 people a war crime. Jeffrey Feltman told the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday that Sunday’s attack “would be yet one more war crime for which those responsible …

NEW YORK – Police in New York City say a woman pushed, scratched and bit a subway rider who tried to sit in a seat that had her bag on it. The alleged subway rage occurred aboard a Manhattan-bound F train from Queens last Friday. Police say the 45-year-old victim …